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...networks comes in as many flavors as there are positions in the Kama Sutra. If your taste runs to explicit pictures, there are thousands of them on such bulletin boards as Nixpix in Aspen, Colorado, and Odyssey in Monrovia, California. Jim Maxey, a former journalist and part-time private eye who runs the Event Horizons system in Lake Oswego, Oregon, grossed $3.5 million last year from computer users willing to pay $9 an hour to connect to his bulging database of R- and X-rated digital images and film loops...
Case in point: Monrovia, Liberia, where Purvis arrived a month ago on a chartered flight just after rebels started shelling the airport runway to impede Nigerian troops. He spent a scary night holed up in a dilapidated beachfront hotel, he says, "listening to artillery fire mingled with the sound of crashing waves as I filed a story on a laptop computer." On his way out the next day, three Liberian "security" officials detained Purvis in a small room at the airport and shook him down for a $60 bribe. It was pay or stay. "They each got $20, which...
TIME Cairo correspondent Bill Dowell faced comparable difficulties when he had to travel to Liberia to co-report our cover story. With Monrovia's main airport still under rebel control following the bloody civil war that ousted President Samuel Doe, Dowell flew in on a tiny Cessna that landed on a , makeshift airstrip. Nearby lay the charred remains of a Russian-built transport plane that had failed to make such a landing a few days earlier. Dowell also visited Francophone Ivory Coast, Senegal and Mali. Michaels, meanwhile, fanned out as far afield as Zambia, Zaire, Burkina Fasso, Nigeria, Benin...
...cold war is over, intervention need no longer be quite so suspect as a cynical gambit on the East-West chessboard. The concept of benevolent interference is already coming back into fashion. Last year, while Liberia was in the throes of its tribal self-immolation, five European envoys in Monrovia pleaded for the U.S. to send in troops to stop the killing. "The interdependence of nations," said an Italian diplomat, "no longer permits other nations to sit idle while one country plunges into anarchy and national suicide." Or, he might have added, mass murder at the hand of its leader...
...peace talks in nearby Togo adjourned, however, than Liberia's chief rivals for power began disputing the settlement's terms. Charles Taylor, the guerrilla leader whose army controls the countryside, objected to a provision disqualifying him, as well as opposing commanders, from heading a transitional regime in Monrovia. "I expect to head the interim government," he announced. Prince Yeduo Johnson, whose force killed President Samuel Doe in September, denounced the statement: "Charles Taylor is not going to tell the Liberian people what he wants...